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Weighing ingredients is really the most accurate way to cook or bake, not to mention it's most efficient in terms of dirtying dishes, clean up etc. and so having this little tool is invaluable to keep scales calibrated and insure accuracy.Fabulous price point, great quality, and a must have tool in any kitchen. I would buy this again and again!

I have used it to calibrate my kitchen scale. Not that I need this kind of precision for most needs, but having tested it at different incremental weights (adding the 100 grams to successively bigger weights) so I have much greater confidence in the scales across the rated range of the scale. In my case, my scale drifts about 1 gram for every 200 or so grams already on the scale. Which is to say when I add this weight at 0 grams, my scale reads 100 on the nose. But at 200 grams when I add the weight, it will only read 299 grams. Not a problem at all and considering the cost of the scales quite respectable, but certainly no fault of the weight.

The only thing disappointing is that the handle on the top of the weight is much smaller than pictured, but given the infrequent need I have for this, more an aesthetic complaint than a practical one.

At the time of my purchase this item is NOT being sold by Amazon directly. The vendor may actually vary depending on who has it in stock and it certainly appears at least one vendor was shipping used/damaged or otherwise subpar items.

Look carefully at the name under the item for the actual vendor, and also look to see if it has Prime shipping. Some vendors keep their stock in Amazon warehouses, so if an outside vendor has 'fulfilled by Amazon' that means just that AND you can get free super saver or Prime shipping.

Check the vendor reviews out as well as some are great and some, well not so much. Amazon does police their partners as I understand it, but some are just not going to be as good as others.

PLUS as the vendor changes the prices may fluctuate as well. The current vendor as I write this is not the same as the one who shipped me the weight--mine was a few cents cheaper and I did get the free shipping.

So, do your due diligence and you will come out ahead.

In any case, about the weight. Yep, it's chrome, has a handle on top and weighs a 100 grams. That is pretty much it. Therefore, it is a success and recommended if you have a need for such things--if you are buying a small, yet sensitive scale then this is very useful!

I bought this to calibrate a new digital scale (American Weigh BT2-201). It is bright, shiny and in new condition. Initial weight on the brand new, factory calibrated, freshly zeroed scale was 100.05 grams. It's 3x too heavy for me to double check in my RCBS 505 scale, but after using this weight to recalibrate the digital scale, I compared weights for a few different lighter objects between the RCBS and new digital scale, and they were very, very close, well within the margin of error of both scales.

I'll have to take this weight to my local coin dealer and have him check it for me, like another reviewer did. Overall, I'm very happy with this little weight.

Calibration is good. In a discussion of food scales on a recipe blog someone who does industrial calibrations said he was impressed that this weight is up to any industrial standard-- that means as close to perfect as is possible. Take care of it. Use it occasionally to keep a check on your scale.

It's inexpensive but does it's job calibrating scale!! Shiney 1 piece chrome finish!! If your using nickles...they don't weigh the same, you have a scale can't you see that??Don't make the mistake I made at 1st. I calibrated scale with a fan on low far away....OOPS!! When I moved it to a absolute windless spot the weight was 99.91,so a VERY light wind will throw off your calibration!!For $3.40 delivered you just can't go wrong!!! I keep it stored in a medium precription bottle with cotton on bottom. Dosen't bounce around & won't get damaged!!Used with the AWS-100 as per directions!! Joe

Purchased for use in support of Odyssey of the Mind Problem 4 (Structure) where precise and consistently accurate weights are available. Recommended by a colleague who has been using this model for several years without error.

Well there is not much to say here about this little guy. It arrived to me brand new, shiny chrome, and was stamped 100 grams. I have a few other different 100 gram calibration weights, as well as expensive digital scales, and I checked the weight out on my other 3 scales, and it's weight is perfect at 100.00 grams. I have read some other reviews on this calibration weight stating it arrived pitted, and looked used, and some reviews stated it did not have a knob like top on it. Well mine came exactly as it looks in the photo, and showed no signs of prior use, and was perfectly polished chrome. No bare hands touched this weight, just Chinese white gloved hands. I am very pleased with this calibration weight, and if I need to purchase more 100 gram weights, I would definitely buy more of these!